Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.

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1 To succeed the programs need to be able to accept input from all the common word processors , data bases , graphics packages and so on as well as scanners and document readers .
2 At an informal level officers and councillors meet frequently at civic functions , receptions and so forth as well as before and after official meetings , and this too , serves to blur the formal relationship between them .
3 And rightly so as well .
4 She felt panicky , as if something precious deep within her was menaced by his closeness , and once again as shockingly unsure of herself as she had always been in his presence six years ago .
5 The period of this activity was relatively short , virtually coming to an end c .1760 , but during it he produced a significant body of work both in his own region of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire and further afield as well .
6 That will be as much as fun as er Sunday school I expect and probably just as well attended .
7 This exercise must be done slowly and carefully so as not to let the barbell drop from your fingertips .
8 Stephen tied it up but the string broke and he had to drive the car into Hilderbridge very slowly and carefully so as not to overheat the engine .
9 Moving slowly and cautiously so as not to rip any of the rubber components of their diving suits , they passed in file into a compartment not more than four feet in height but almost twenty feet in length , extending from the nose cone , under the flight deck and then several feet beyond .
10 Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed .
11 I had speculated endlessly during the week about Conchis , and as futilely as endlessly .
12 Electricity was erratic in the old , two-up , two-down house and as often as not the children had gone to bed with candles .
13 They may spend Saturday night together , and as often as not you see the men holding up the bar with their pints and the women sitting at the tables with their shorts .
14 The work I 've done for other people , getting things together , making things happen , sheltering the homeless , getting them fed — and as often as not , paying for it .
15 Molly and Judith frequently went visiting other girls in the community after dinner and as often as not did not come home for tea ; and , since Malka had married and left Cork , Judith spent even more Sundays out of the house .
16 and erm he would take er legal action or at least that was the idea , we hardly ever got any erm any change out of the Le Legal Department and as often as not it was written off .
17 and as often as not they win the race ,
18 Within the peasantry a sizeable body of commercial farmers undoubtedly developed — they were of substantial significance in Russia by the 1880s — but class differentiation was inhibited by various factors — racialism in the United States , the persistence of the organised village community in Russia — and as often as not the fully commercialised and capitalist rural sectors were outside traders or money-lenders ( commercial firms and banks ) .
19 As for old age , it was a catastrophe to be stoically expected , a decline in earning power from the forties as physical strength ebbed — especially for the less skilled — followed by poverty , and as like as not charity and poor relief .
20 I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’
21 The principle underlying this figure obtained throughout the ancient world — not only in the classical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East , but among the Celtic and Teutonic tribes of Europe and farther afield as well .
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